After getting the traveling press scrum to promise they wouldn’t tweet from the bus where they were going during his fundraising swing in the Bay Area yesterday, Mitt Romney made an unscheduled trip to Fremont. There, outside the abandoned Solyndra energy plant, his people set up a podium on the dusty side of the road (above) so that the GOP candidate could stand in front of the building long enough to get what he’d come for (below), an improvised set from which to criticize President Obama over the administration’s loan to the failed company.
Images: top, New York Times; bottom: Los Angeles Times